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Article: File sharing in Leopard: Mac OS X 10.5 makes it easier than ever to share files.(Mobile Mac)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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If you want to share files with other people (and who doesn't these days?), you can always send the files via e-mail or iChat. But it's far more efficient just to give your collaborators shared access to the files, folders, and volumes on your Mac and let them get the files themselves.
Unfortunately, OS X hasn't always made file sharing easy. Tiger and preceding versions of Mac OS X lacked some file-sharing features--such as the ability to share folders as networked volumes--found even in Mac OS 9; plus the tools you used to configure file sharing weren't always as straightforward as they should have been.
The good news is that in Mac OS X 10.5, Apple ...